‘Not Today, Satan!’ Outraged Jim Acosta Blasts Trump Demolition as He Cancels WaPo Live On Air
Podcast host and independent journalist Jim Acosta invoked the Prince of Darkness as he canceled his Washington Post subscription over an op-ed praising President Donald Trump’s ongoing demolition project to erect a new ballroom.
Since taking office for a second time, Trump has overseen massive changes to the physical features of the White House, including a gold-drenched Oval Office overhaul, a paved-over lawn in the Rose Garden, and now a major demolition of the entire East Wing to make way for a massive ballroom.
Amid outrage from critics, The Washington Post editorial board published an op-ed praising the project — even as WaPo owner Jeff Bezos was revealed as being on a long list of donors funding the project.
On Monday’s episode of The Jim Acosta Show, the host slammed the paper and Bezos in a blistering commentary that was pegged to a live demonstration of how to cancel a WaPo subscription:
JIM ACOSTA: Well, you know what you just, you just spent a bunch of money and put in the newspaper that it’s OK for Donald Trump to knock down the White House.
Go f**k yourselves! That’s what I have to say. And so right there, continue to cancel. Would you like to secure a rate of $60 for one year of core content?
Oh, they’re lowering my price. They’ll lower my price by half. If I just, we’d hate to see you go. Keep your subscription at a special rate.
No thanks. Cancel my subscription.
We’ve canceled your subscription. Let us know why you cancel. Your feedback is important to us. I’m changing my subscription type. I have a duplicate subscription. No, that’s not too expensive. It’s a little expensive, but I was willing to pay for it. Add quantity, call it, no, not, techno problems, no time to read, no that’s not it. I use other news sources, no it’s not. I really–
I have always loved the Washington Post. Tracking and data privacy, no. Promotion ended, no Concerns about Washington Post content. Yes, that is one. Other, you know what, I’ll put other. That’s what I’ll do and I’ll write this out later. I am that furious over what I saw over the weekend.
That– you just saw it folks right there canceled my bloody subscription. If Jeff Bezos is gonna run the Washington Post into the ground and run great journalists off to other publications, I will go subscribe to those other publications. But I will not subscribe to some watered-down, MAGA-friendly, Trumpy-curious ballroom construction-justifying piece of sh*t newspaper, you know, that belongs like at the bottom of my bird cage.
I’m just not going to do it anymore! And I just can’t believe how pissed off I am about this, but I will just tell you, I ain’t going to pay for, I ain’t going to pay for coverage like that! I’m not going pay for a newspaper that justifies what Donald Trump did. And so you’re going to write an, you’re gonna write an op-ed about it? I’m exercising my right as a consumer to cancel you. I have canceled you Washington Post!
Maybe you can earn my money back. Maybe you’re going to earn my business back, but not today, Satan! Not today Bezos!
Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.
